In Loving Memory to
Arowana Hai Xiang

Born 23 January 2003 - Died 11 February 2008

Hai Xiang or Tehl as we called him was one of the two brothers we kept
from Qing's one and only litter. He has always been the sunshine in our
lives with his clown-like behaviour. The
name we gave him at birth was Tehl, short for "The Eagle Has
Landed",
because of his spread eagle feeding habit. He turned out
to be a Gentle Giant, an absolute clown, and we nicknamed him Rambo
because his way of greeting friends is "absolutely"
enthusiastic.

During December and January all our
dogs were suffering from diarrhea and bad eating habits, so we thought
this would be a thing that would pass and we had to pay attention to
their food intake. Every dog, but Tehl, recovered and he finally stopped
eating at all. So we booked him in at the Vet for a scan, but he phoned
us and asked if he was allowed to open him up for further testing. This
happened on 11 January 2008 and three days later we received
confirmation of the diagnosis, gastrointestinal lymfosarcoma. We all new
that this would be terminal, but with the doctor we decided to try and
give him his last moments of joy, knowing that he was not in pain. We
put him on endomax (chemotherapy) and cortisone pills. He started
improving after day three and started eating again. By that time we
would try to give him anything he would eat, like ostrich meat,
langoustines and other fish, etc. On the 8th of February the amount of
food we could feed him went down and he started vomiting again. We had
to make the difficult decision, we could see he was very tired, and
phoned the Vet. At 17:45 on 11 February Tehl went to sleep with his head
in our hands and is now with his mother on the other side of the rainbow
bridge.